(1) Every vessel or vehicle used by a common carrier for the transport of animals shall be cleansed and disinfected by him at such periods and in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) Any person in charge of such vessel or vehicle shall, when required to do so by an Inspector, cause it to be taken to such place as the Inspector may direct and to be kept stationary for so long as may reasonably be necessary for the purpose of enabling the Inspector to inspect it. The Inspector may, after such inspection, if in his opinion the vessel or vehicle is not in a sanitary condition, require it to be cleansed and disinfected in the prescribed manner.
(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the rolling stock of any railway.
17. Subject to the rules the Veterinary Surgeon may by order in writing, require the owner, occupier or person in charge of any land, building, or other place or of any vessel or vehicle in which an infective animal has been kept to have such land, building, place, vessel or vehicle disinfected, and the internal fittings thereof and other things found therein or near thereto to be disinfected or destroyed in, such manner and to such extent as may be specified in the order.
18. Subject to the rules the Veterinary Surgeon may make or cause to be made a post-mortem examination of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or is suspected to have been infective, and for this purpose he may cause the carcass of such animal to be exhumed.
19. Every owner or person in charge of, and every Veterinary practitioner who has been called to treat, an animal which he has reason to believe to be affected with a scheduled disease shall forthwith report the fact to the Inspector having jurisdiction in the area.
20. Every owner or person in charge of an animal which he has reason to believe to be affected with a scheduled disease shall keep it in an enclosed space separate from animals not so affected.
Explanation.—"Enclosed space" for the purposes of this section means any place, enclosed in such manner, and situated at such distance, as effectively to prevent any animal affected with a scheduled disease from coming into contact with any animal not so affected.
21. No person shall keep or graze in open or unenclosed land to which other persons have a right of access for their animals, any animal which he knows to be infective.
22. No person shall bring or attempt to bring into any market, fair, exhibition or other concentration of animals, any animal which he knows to be infective.
23. No carcass or part of the carcass of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or which was destroyed on account of its being infective or suspected to be infective shall be disposed of except by burning or burying in the prescribed manner or by placing in the sea beyond the prescribed distance from the shore.
24. No person shall without lawful authority disinter or cause to be disinterred the carcass or any part of the carcass of any animal which, at the time of its death was infective or which was destroyed on account of its being infective or suspected to be infective.
25. Subject to the rules an Inspector may enter upon and inspect any land, building or other place or any vessel or vehicle for the purpose of exercising the powers and performing the duties conferred or imposed on him by or under this Act.